I’m so glad, in the case of Smith, to see so many people singling out her Oscar-winning work in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. In the 1969 film, she plays a teacher at a Scottish all-girls ...

“She always looks so extreme,” a fellow teacher observes of Maggie Smith’s trademark rigidity in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969 ... playing an insecure movie star married ...

To understand her brilliance, look no further than her complex performance in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Rites of Passage The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie has been adapted for the stage at London's Donmar Warehouse to mark the centenary of Muriel Sparks' birth There's a new horror film which some ...

Early in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the 1969 film starring Maggie Smith in an Oscar-winning performance, Smith stands in front of a classroom of young teenage girls and informs them that they ...

LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of ...

Two years later, it was made into a film with the original cast, with Dame Maggie being nominated for an Oscar. In 1970, she won a best actress Oscar for 1969’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ...